In my case I think drugs helped to my mental breakdown months before i got sick, but the exact moment they occurred I was experiencing stress, like a bad breakup, a very strict diet and study related stress…
They seemed at first to be related with feeling disconnected from people or hopelessness. Later, they became ingrained thoughts and ways of looking at the world. Like, the psychosis is part of who I’ve become. Probably not a great thing, but it’s the facts and I’m still isolating.
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Drugs don’t allow you to process your life and stress from unfinished business and all that instability builds up. @dreamer54. I guess you took a left turn instead of a right @BrianTex
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I was depressed for a long time, and I remember when I had my fist real break it was because I was so desperate to feel something I pushed my brain. It’s like it just popped after years of keeping my depression to myself while trying to be a star child for my parents.
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Mine is close to yours, … A guy I was seeing had lied to me about seeing another person, so a bad break up, it really stressed me, strict dieting, and in my case work stress in retail. And drugs a few months beforehand with alcohol 
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I think it was just a matter of time for me. I wasn’t depressed or manic when I started having vivid external hallucinations, it just happened. I woke up one morning and I felt really strange, and as I was leaving 5th period government (which I loved) and headed to 6th period computer science (which I loved even more), I felt someone tug on my backpack and there was a floating arm and hand backing away from me over the sea of people in the main hallway. I had symptoms before that, but they were all in my head and I thought they were intrusive thoughts from OCD.
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Mine lined up very much with trauma. The times I broke I was very much trapped in bad situations.
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